Bristol-based East African street food stall Jikoni is to open its first bricks-and-mortar site next month in a cobbled courtyard in St Paul’s. Iman Salat and James Hillier have served dishes from Somalia, Kenya, Ethiopia and Tanzania for two years at pop-ups and supper clubs around Bristol and Bath. Formerly known as Pear Cafe, tiny […]
Tattu, the ultra-glossy northern-based Oriental restaurant group, is putting finishing touches to its London debut in the Outernet’s ‘The Now Building’, on a prime corner of Tottenham Court Road. The flamboyant rooftop restaurant will have views across the city, with an interior inspired by traditional Chinese courtyard houses and designed by the Joyce Wang Studio […]
Honey & Co, the small cafe-restaurant in Fitzrovia that helped propel the popularisation of Middle Eastern cuisine in London, is closing down after 10 years following the landlord’s refusal to extend its lease. Israeli-born couple Sarit Parker and Itamar Svrulovich, both alumni of the original Ottolenghi in Notting Hill, launched Honey & Co to general […]
Glynn Purnell, whose Purnell’s in Birmingham city centre is hailed as the second best restaurant in Britain in the new Harden’s 2022 guide, is to open his first venue outside the city in Henley-in-Arden next month. The Mount by Glynn Purnell is a refurbished historic pub – formerly the Butchers’ Social – on the high street […]
Adam Byatt of Trinity restaurant in Clapham heads the list of guest stars who will cook one-off meals at Gusbourne winery’s chef series this summer. Each chef will cook a single lunch and dinner to be served in the garden room at The Nest, the visitor centre overlooking Gusbourne’s vineyards at Appledore, on the edge […]
Here’s our regular summary of what the national and local restaurant critics have been writing about in the week ending 13 February 2022. ***** The Observer Jay Rayner paid a visit to Sugarcane London, a “small, tidy Caribbean café on the Wandsworth Road serving, among other things, very good jerk chicken”. He was drawn there […]
Obsession, the annual festival of gastronomy hosted by Northcote, the Lancashire hotel and restaurant, broke all records in its 20th edition which ended on Sunday with a spectacular six-course feast from host chef Lisa Goodwin-Allen and London-based guest chefs Monica Galetti of Mere and Monica Nieves of Sabor (pictured left to right). Northcote’s restaurant, private […]
Iranian streetfood specialist Berenjak is replacing James Lowe’s Flor bakery and wine bar on the edge of Southwark’s Borough Market, in a reshuffle of businesses backed by JKS Restaurants. Chef Kian Samyani (pictured) has won high praise for the original Berenjak, which opened in Romilly Street, Soho in 2018, with the new Harden’s 2022 guide […]
It survived the Norman conquest, the Black Death, a visit from arch puritan Oliver Cromwell, the introduction of licensing in 1828 and a ban on cock fighting in 1835. But Ye Olde Fighting Cocks, reputedly a fixture of St Albans since the year 793 and a claimant to the title of Britain’s oldest pub, was […]
Raymond Blanc’s pub-brasserie group is to be spun out into a national chain under new owners who plan to open as many as 50 new branches in the next few years. The French-born chef is understood to have sold his minority stake, but will remain involved in the business. Alchemy Partners, a London-based private equity […]
